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Metropolitan

United States of America

PG-13
1990-08-03
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Comedy,
Drama,
Romance
▪ 1h-39m

69^%

User
Score

Finally... A film about the downwardly mobile.

Overview

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Whit StillmanDirector
Whit StillmanWriter
Joe FoleyKey Grip
Mark SuozzoOriginal Music Composer
Brian GreenbaumLine Producer
Larry EudeneAssistant Director

Top Billed Cast

Edward Clements

Tom Townsend

Chris Eigeman

Nick Smith

Taylor Nichols

Charlie Black

Carolyn Farina

Audrey Rouget

Isabel Gillies

Cynthia McLean

Dylan Hundley

Sally Fowler

Allison Parisi

Jane Clarke

Bryan Leder

Fred Neff

Will Kempe

Rick Von Sloneker

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A review by griggs79

6.0

Written by griggs79 on 2024-12-02

Whit Stillman’s _Metropolitan_ offers a witty and arch glimpse into the lives of Upper East Side debutantes and their slightly aimless escorts during Christmas break. It's like _The Breakfast Club_, but with black-tie soirées instead of detention and ironic detachment and spirited Jane Austen debates instead of teen an...

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